HOW TO PRONOUNCE
environment
/ɪnˈvaɪɹənmənt/
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Keep the “vire” sound clear.
The main stress falls on the long i sound before r. In the ending, connect n to m without adding a strong vowel or letting the last syllable take the main beat.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The classroom provides a quiet environment for reading.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does environment mean?
noun
- The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- The natural world or ecosystem.
- All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
More meanings (4)
noun
- A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
- The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
- The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪnˈvaɪɹənmənt/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Other dictionary pronunciations
/ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚn.mənt//ɪnˈvaɪ.ɚ.mənt/
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It was only an average little conscience, a thing which represented the world, her past environment, habit, convention, in a confused way.
She was quite clear as to the environment, had apparently a satisfactory memory, with the exception of a recent period preceding admission.
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As our vegetation is acclimated and adapted to our environment no damage is done to growing crops by reason of these frosts.
In brief, the environment consists of those conditions that promote or hinder, stimulate or inhibit, the characteristic activities of a living being.
The first step has been taken in the very general elimination of the old wasteful, neglectful elements of factory and office environment.